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Dear Friends: Please be aware that beginning June 18, NIFL will activate an automatic filter on the listserv in the interest of protecting us all from viruses. The filter has been operating for a while on the NIFL--ESL list with good results--see below. The filter will also require that all messages be posted in PLAIN TEXT (more info below) and no attachments are allowed. Please understand that this technology is automatically put into play by NIFL and I have no control over it. Further details from NIFL:
"The test of the attachment filter being used on the NIFL-ESL discussion list
has gone well. The filter has caught, as of last Friday (6/14), 34
potentially virus infected messages and stopped them from being distributed
to the list membership. There were six additional messages with potentially
virus infected attachments caught over the weekend.
Based on these results NIFL has directed that the filter be implemented on
all discussion lists.
File attachments will no longer
be allowed through the discussion lists once the filter is in place. The
filter will also enforce the "plain text messages only" rule. Email
messages sent as MIME attachments or HTML mail will be rejected (these types
of emails include the message body as an attachment...hence the filter
rejects them). If list members send messages as or with attachments
they will receive a notice from the list server advising them that
attachments are not permitted and that they should resend their messages as
"plain text" messages.
Implementation of this filter will greatly reduce the possibility of virus
infected messages being passed through the discussion lists. It will
similarly reduce the possibility of virus infected messages being part of
the archives.
Please note that virus infected messages currently do exist in the list
server archives. If users have their subscriptions set to DIGEST format
they may receive infected messages when the next digest format message is
sent from the list server so they should beware. Once the filter is in
place infected messages shouldn't make it into the list server archives (or
the on-line HTML archives for that matter). We will attempt to remove the
infected messages from the list server archive"
If you have any questions please contact me off the list. .
Deborah W. Yoho